Grain packer and carrier



(No Model.)

W. H. KNAPP.

GRAIN PAGKER AND CARRIER.

No. 435.143. Patented Aug. 26, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

VILLIAM II. KNAPP, OF GALESBURG, MICHIGAN.

GRAIN PACKER AND CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 435,143, dated August 26, 1890*.

pplieation illecl March 17. 1890.

To all whom, it may concern;

Beit known that I, WILLIAn H. KNAPP, a citizen of the United States, residing at Galesburg, county of' Kalamazoo, State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Grain Packer and Carrier, of which the following is a specilication.

This invention more particularly relates to devices known as grain packers and car riers,7 either for moving the grain along the platform or for packing it back beneath the needle-bar in grain-harvesters in a compact condition ready for binding.

The object of the invention consists in a construction in which two lapping rotary disks or wheels are employed, to which wheels the ends of the rake-heads are attached, one end being' attached to one disk and the other end to the other disk in the order and arrangement below described, and in which the rakes are always carried in the same posit-ion during their different movements downward, backward, and upward, in which movements they enter the grain, carry it from one place to anotherpand rise out of the grain.

No harvester is here illustrated7 but simply the mechanism or apparatus for carrying or packing the grain, from the tact that the use of such devices are so well understood.

In the drawings t'ormingapart of this specication, Figure l is a sectional elevation taken en line 3 3 in Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan view of Fig. 1.

Referring to the lettered parts et the drawings, A is the frame, in which the lappingwheels B and B are journaled, the axis of the wheel B being shown at E and theaxis oi' the wheel l consisting of the shaft D, to which power is applied when in operation.

The rakes consist of the head C and the vertical teeth a, projecting from each end of said head and at right angles thereto. One end of these rake-heads is pivoted to the wheel l5 at i', and the other end is pivoted to the wheel B at e. Three of these rakes are used, as in Fig. l, but more may be employed. rlhe length ot the teeth a must be governed according to the distance between the pivots e e' of one rakehead and those of another, so that the ends of the rake-teeth will not con- Selial No. 344,217. (No model.)

tlict therewith. The movement of these rakes is illustrated in Fig. l in dotted position, the lower dotted rake being in the position it would occupy in the grain when carrying the same or when packing it beneath t-he needlebar ready for binding.

lVhen the carrier and packer is used in the position shown in Fig. l, the harvester-platform or the binding-table, as the case may be,

vided (by making their pivotal ends of sutticient length laterally) with as many teeth as desired, only one at each end being here shown, and in such a case of course the wheels B and B would have to be farther apart.

Vhile I have described this apparatus as being adapted for use in carrying and packing grain, it may be employed in carriers and elevators for other purposes and in carrying paddles through the water for propelling boats to which said apparatus may be attached, or, in tact, in any device wherein the heads C and the teeth a or projections are operated by the wheels B and B upon the principle herein illustrated. The parts C, I have termed the rake-heads, and I have termed the parts a rake-teeth, but in constructions in which these rakes are not employed to carry or pack and the grain Carrier and packer consisting EZ. The combination of a grain-hzuvester In testimony of the foregoing I have here unto subscribed my name in presence of two of the lappingr separated revoluble disks and Witnesses. the rake-heads provided with the teeth, one end of the rake-heads being pivoted to one disk and the other end to the other disk, substantially as set forth.

WILLIAM 1I. KN APP. Witnesses:

BELLE C. TRUMAN, FANNIE L. PUHN. 

